By D.Re.
Published
25 minutes ago,
Update 24 minutes ago
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SCAN SPORT – At the 77e minute of the semi-final, the Harlequins pillar provoked the Toulouse full-back before insulting him. An incident which precipitated the defeat of his team.
We compete for the 77e minute of the Champions Cup semi-final between Stade Toulousain and Harlequins. The Londoners, trailing 38 to 26, threw their last strength into the battle to try to reverse the fate of the match. And get a penalty.
But the whimsical Joe Marler, who recently came into play, delivers a slap behind the head of Thomas Ramos. The Toulouse full-back loses his temper, the tone rises and the Irish referee, Mr. Brace, asks for the video. Discovering the gesture of the English international pillar, he reverses the penalty.
The English journalists then translated the sweet words addressed by Joe Marler to Thomas Ramos: “You little bitch!” “… We remember that in the group stage, at the end of December, when the two teams faced each other, the Toulouse player and the star fly-half of Harlequins, Marcus Smith already exchanging pleasantries.
Smith had slammed Ramos after a failed kicking game by the latter and, ten minutes later, on a ruck, the Toulouse man had pressed his face against the ground insistently. The video had circulated repeatedly in England, demanding a quote from the number 15 of the Blues. A request that had not been taken into account…
After the semi-final, Joe Marler, aware of having made a mistake by delivering this slap, apologized on his X account to… his partners and the Harlequins supporters.
